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Poetry. DISTANCE FROM BIRTH by Tracy Philpot is one of the winners of the Elixir Press Inaugural Poetry Awards. This is her second book of poetry. "Tracy Philpot's DISTANCE FROM BIRTH possesses an original fervor that arises from the injured earth out of the injured mouth. Here is a generous, whole-fleshed poetic idiom, stringent yet wild, blasted yet flexible enough to mark threat and scar as well as capture the sports of the heart"--Dean Young. Her work has appeared in such publications as New American Writing, Southern Poetry Review, and Fence. She lives in Seldovia, Alaska.